potentially if Williams beats Pavlik ? Williams probably can easily put some lbs to reach 170-175 lbs limit and with his size he should have no big disadvantages comparing to Dawson. Dawson other hand isn't amazing puncher but more technical boxer. So who would win this one?
but now he is at 160lb and half of the current HW is shorter than him so he have big potential in terms of gaining weight.
Just the other day Williams said he is currently walking around at 157-158. In other words, he walks around 20 pounds lighter than Pavlik and 25 pounds lighter than Abraham. He's not a big man, "he just tall, and that's all." I think that for the near future 154 will prove to be a great division for him.
I think 160 is perfect for him cause there isn't any real competition!!! He'll problaby reign as the MW champ for quite some time!!
Right now? Dawson. Given 3 years for Williams to naturally grow into that size? Williams. Dawson is the next Lacy.
Where Lacy had power, Dawson has speed, outside of that? Two guys who had credible victories over fighters to gain their title at a division where European fighters were reigning supreme. Two guys who had massive struggles with the older generation in fights but scraped through, in Dawson's case, very luckily. Dawson has less amateur experience, took longer to get to the title in arguably a weaker division and has chin issues that do not appear to be going away. When he loses to Johnson, if they don't rob Johnson again, it will hopefully be the realisation for people like you who think Dawson is something more than another American hypejob.
Umm Dawson has a little something called SKILLS... which Lacy never had. And Dawson is ALREADY far more proven than Lacy. Adamek was considered the #1 at 175 when Dawson schooled him, so idk where the hell you got the 2nd part from. You dont know much do you? To compare Dawson to Lacy you're either 1. stupid 2. biased as **** 3. a combination of the two. And when Dawson clearly beats Johnson in the rematch, what will you then say?
Lacy had skill too, before he got it beaten out of him and then tore his rotator cuff in the very next fight. You forgetting Lacy was an olympian? That he had a title before his 20th fight? He wasn't a bum, he was turned into a bum. Dawson clearly beats Johnson? So far in the one rematch Dawson has had, he had a closer fight against Tarver than he did in the first one. Johnson when pissed off is a hard guy to beat, Dawson doesn't have the chops to do it.